Portable clothes drier



F. CHAPMAN PORTABLE CLOTHES DRIER Fild Dec. 5. 192a Patented Aug. 25, 1925.

g v 1,551,4e PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK CHAPMAN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF To HARRY G.

FISHER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PORTABLE CLOTHES DRIER.

Application filed December 5, 1923; Serial No. 678,746.- 7

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK CHAPMAN, a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Clothes Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a port-able clothes drier designed particularly to be used in window or like opening and adapted when not in use to be folded into small compact form for storage without separation of any of the parts. I The clothes drier of this invention is designed more particularly for use in'connection with small articles and is constructed to be readily and conveniently clamped in position between the outer and intermediate beads of a window frame, the'supporting members directly receiving the clothes or other articles, being conveniently flexible to permit a compact arrangement of the parts when the device is not in use.

panying drawings, in which:

-Fig. 1 is .a perspective'view illustrating the drier in position in a window frame ready for use. I Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the drier partly collapsed, indicating the manner in which the, parts are to be arranged when folding for storage.

Fi .3 is a perspective view of the device tolded, the ropes being omitted.

' Fig. 4c is a detail showing the mounting of the arms. i Fig. 5 is a detail showing the mounting of the brace bars. The improved drier comprises duplicate side members, including uprights 1 of a width to fitbetween the outer or inner and intermediate beads 2 and 3 of an ordinary window frame 4, the height of the uprights being preferably lessthan the height. of the lower sash. These side members also include supporting arms 5, which are hingedly connected at 6 to the lower ends of the uprights, there being preferably provided me tallic strips 7 adjacent the hinge connection the supporting arms in contact with the up rights, to avold strain on the hinge connectrons and assist in llOlCllIlg the arms 1n spread The invention is illustrated in the accomwhich may be utilized to assist in holding to assist in holding the drier.

relationagainst the weight :of the clothes on tne drier. The respective supporting arms are connected by flexible iarticle' receiving lines 8, or a single line preferably substan" tial cord or thin rope,-theselines being tern'nnally passed through openings in the supporting arms 5. As preferred, the clothes line is in the'form of a singleline, terminally secured at one end to the arm and laced ietween the respective arms, through openings therein, with the final end of such length as to permit adjustment between the arm in accommodating different widths of drier for different widths of window.

Connected to I the respective uprights slightly below their mid-lengths are brace bars 9, ofappropriate lengthsand'formed for interconnection, as for example,through the inediinn of slot 10 formed in one of'said bars 9 and a thumb screw 11 carried by the other brace bar and extending through the slot. The clothes supporting frame includ ing the side arms 5 and the lines 8 a'relimited in their opening movemei'ltv by'flexible ties- 12 connected to the uprights and to the free ends of the supporting arm's, these ties limiting the drier frame to asubjstantiallv horizontal position when in use. The Inetallic strips '7 are of angle formwith the short arm, secured tothebottom of the uprights 1, and the long arm spaced from the .wallsof the uprights, to provide for the movement of the supporting arms'5 between the long arms of the strips and theuprights, when the supporting arms are turned into operative positions.

' In applying the device for use, the up between the outer and intermediate beads below the upper sash, this arrangement moving the brace bars 9 into; a. substantially horizontal position and extending them to .rights 1 are positioned in the window frame form an effective brace between the up the ties 12, the supporting arms in this position preferably resting upon and being supported by the sill of the window, as shown in Fig. 1. The lines 8 are thus disposed beyond the window structure and small articles may be readily hung on such lines 8 for drying. The uprights are provided with hooks 15 into which the ties 12 may be temporarily looped to assist in holding the arms in angular position when first setting the device. These hooks also serve to shorten the operative length of the ties, as desired, to hold the arms at any final angle to the horizontal, as may be desirable in use.

Furthermore, it is obvious that the time as a whole may be completely reversed in position and the supporting frame extended within the .room, to permit drying of articles in rainy weather or the like.

WVhen the device is not desired for use, the thumb screw 11 is loosened and the brace bars turned upwardly permitting the up rights 1 and supporting arms 5 to be moved into close contact and the lines 8 and ties l2 wrapped around the parts or iuterfolded therewith. A compact structure .is thus provided for which occupies" little room in storage.

The rigid parts of the structure may be conveniently constructed of wood, light metal, or other appropriate material, and it is to be particularly noted that either in extending for use or folding for storage, no separation of any parts is necessary, the device remaining intact and requiring substain tially but a single operation in either an ranging for use or collapsing.

Claims:

1. A portable clot-hes drier, comprising duplicate side members, each including an upright adapted to be placed in contact with a window or door frame and a supporting arm hinged thereto, flexible lines con necting the supporting arms, and inter-coir nected brace bars extending from the up rights adapted to hold said uprights in bii'iding and supporting contact with the window or door frame.

2. A portable clothes drier, comprising duplicate side members, a supporting arm hinged adjacent one end of each of said members interconnected brace bars ar ranged between the members, and means secured to the members and having upright portions spaced from the members in advance of the hinged connection of the sup porting arm t limit the hinged movement of the supporting arm in one direction and prevent lateral play of such arm when in operative position.

3. A portable clothes drier, comprising uprights to be arranged between adjacent beads of a winoow frame, a brace bar extending from the inner side of each upright, n'ieans tor rigidly connecting the brace bars to hold the iip-iglits in binding position in the window frame, a supporting arm hingedly connected to the lower end or each upright, flelt'ble article supporting lines extending between and connect d to the supporting arms, and flexible ties connecting the upper ends of the uprights and supporting arms.

4. A portable clothes drier, comprising duplicate side members each including i i A h it and a supp to, flexibl lines connecting arms, flexible tie members connecting the outer ends of the at is and the up hts to thereby normally hoid the arms in a substantially horizontal position, and hooks on the uprights to shtnten the eitcctire lengths of the ties at wil to thereby hold the arms in a substantially inclined position, and interconnected brace bars entendiie from the uprights to force the latter into binding contact with a window or (i001 frame.

In testimony whereof I aim: my signature.

FRANK CHAPMAN [:L. s1

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